Re: [ukha_d] How to spend £5,000

["Mal Lansell" <mlansell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

That's why I set myself a limit of 1 hour on the train.  Colleages who live
much closer spend 30 or 40 minutes trundling in on their commuter
cattle-trucks, while I zoom along in inter city comfort.  I feel quite
happy
to spend an extra 15 or 20 minutes each way for the enormous difference it
makes in the kind of home I can afford.

But I do agree that there is a point where all that travelling becomes
counter productive!

Mal


----- Original Message -----
From: "Phil Harris" <phil@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2004 4:55 PM
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] How to spend £5,000



I do 130 miles a day round trip which works out at about 3 hours driving on
a normal day - throw in a bit of rain and you can add an hour to that,
throw
in a bit of snow and you can easily more than double it. Living away from
work is great in so far as you can get cheaper houses (for what you get)
and
green fields but if you're spending too much of your own time travelling
then is it worth it?

Phil

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mal Lansell [mailto:mlansell@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 12 May 2004 16:46
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [ukha_d] How to spend £5,000
>
> Blimey - I think I'd baulk at that length journey, unless I
> worked right next to Paddington station!  When I chose where
> to live, I set an upper limit of an hour for the train part.
> My parents (who live in Tonbridge
> Wells) thought we were mad living so far out of London, until
> I pointed out that my train was quicker than theirs!
>
> A lot of my fellow commuters do a journey from Leicester
> every day (90 minutes), and there was even one guy who
> commuted from Matlock - well over 2 hours each way!
>
> Mal
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Darren Honeyball [ML]" <mlist@xxxxxxx>
> To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2004 4:28 PM
> Subject: Re: [ukha_d] How to spend £5,000
>
>
> >
> > >>The answer is to not live in London - trade better
> surroundings for
> > >>a
> few
> > >>more minutes on the train.
> > >>I live near Wellingborough, Northants which although it
> is more than
> > >>60 miles from London, is only 50 minutes by train to St
Pancras.
> > >>£180k
> could
> > >>buy you a detached house here.
> > >>
> > >>Mal
> >
> > Agreed.  I live in Wiltshire (Chippenham), but commute into
> London -
> > It's about 1hr 20 on the train.
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